This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...cushion count; but all winning and losing hazards made in your opponent's pockets score against you. It is an equal game, the points being scored as in the English game. 7. Winning Hazards against all Hazards and Canons.--Among even players the odds are about two to one. 8. Canons against Hazards and Canons. 9. Two ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...cushion count; but all winning and losing hazards made in your opponent's pockets score against you. It is an equal game, the points being scored as in the English game. 7. Winning Hazards against all Hazards and Canons.--Among even players the odds are about two to one. 8. Canons against Hazards and Canons. 9. Two Pockets to Four.--Between equal players the odds are about ten in fifty. 10. Choice of Balls.--This game is usually played by an inferior against a good player, the former choosing his ball each time he strikes, and scoring all he makes against the hitter's winning and losing hazards. 11. Hazards.--At this game any number of players may engage. The striker plays upon any ball on the table, and receives a stake from the player whose ball he pockets, playing afterwards upon the nearest ball. A good game for young ladies and gentlemen in a country house. 12. The Limited Game is played with a line drawn down the middle of the table, beyond which neither player can pass without forfeit. With scientific players this is an interesting game; with inferior players it is merely a funny one. It is very seldom played. 13. The Stop Game.--In this game the striker's ball must never touch the cushion, except under the penalty of losing one point. Losing hazards count even if they touch the edge of the cushion in going into the pocket. It is a game for good players. Here, then, are a round baker's dozen of what are called Cramp Games. There are several others; but they are very childish and uninteresting, and, therefore, not worth knowing. In my next chapter I shall speak of several foreign games. CHAPTER X. FOEEIGN GAMES. Although the English is confessedly the best and most scientific game on the billiard table, many of the foreign games present considerable a...
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